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February 11, 2010

Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like Kevin Grant’s authoritative book on the Spaghetti Western genre, Any Gun Can Play, is finally… imminent!

February 10, 2010

The Man Who Will Come (L’Uomo che verra)

Giorgio Diritti’s The Man Who Will Come has been doing decent business since it’s release three weeks ago

February 5, 2010

R.I.P. Peter Martell

More sad news… Italian actor Pietro Martellanza, aka Peter Martell, died on the 4th February. Born in 1938 in Bolzano, the dark and handsome Martellanza starred in over 40 films between 1960 and 2009, and at one point in the late sixties looked like becoming a bonafide movie star

February 2, 2010

Il grande sogno

Michele Placido’s Il grande sogno, which I wrote about briefly when it was released, has just been released on DVD in Italy. And… it actually has English subs!

February 1, 2010

R.I.P. Giulio Petroni

More sad news… According to news reports in the Italian press, director Giulio Petroni – who made the hugely succesful Death Rides a Horse – died over the weekend.

January 4, 2010

Comedy, Italian Style

Just picked up this new book – well, it’s not all that new, it came out in May last year, but I haven’t seen any other mention of it. Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies, by Remi Fournier Lanzoni.

December 22, 2009

Who was… Attilio Dottesio

Born in Brescia in 1909, his career in show business began in France, where he obtained some success first as a pop singer, then as an actor in a film by Sacha Guitry, Les Perles de la Couronne.

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